Ms. Adams was to oversee the payroll and accounting functions of GTI and eventually pay off any outstanding tax liabilities.

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Workday sells Web software that helps big companies run back-office functions such as payroll, personnel, asset-tracking and spending.

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The billionaire founder of PeopleSoft has come out of a second retirement to build a new company called Workday that sells software big companies can access over the Web to run most of their important back-office functions such as payroll, personnel, asset-tracking and financials.

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Now, Workday is a full-blown enterprise resource planning (ERP) operator, providing must-have functions like human resources, payroll and financials.

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Allied Minds, as parent, provides interim management and back-office functions such as legal and payroll to the subsidiary as it "de-risks" the technology on the cheap.

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Contrary to popular belief, customer service is not a cost center like payroll processing or other non-strategic business functions.

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The pattern began in the 1950s, when hugely expensive mainframe computers were first used to save correspondingly huge sums in information-intensive functions in the financial-services industry, then in accounting, payroll and inventory-control tasks in other big organisations.

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Not just payroll, but also benefits, talent management, time and attendance tracking and other HR functions.

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